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The Wentworth-Gardner House is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house that was built in 1760 by Mark Hunking Wentworth, one of New Hampshire's wealthiest merchants and landowners, as a wedding present for his son Thomas. [3] The exterior of its main facade is flushboarded with corner quoining, giving it the appearance of masonry construction.
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in New Hampshire is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of New Hampshire [1] [2] [3] Name Image
Wentworth is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 845 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] down from 911 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] The town is home to Plummer's Ledge Natural Area , and part of the White Mountain National Forest is in the northeast.
Governor Wentworth Historic Site is a 96-acre (0.39 km 2) protected area in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. [4] The undeveloped property features a plaque and the stone remains of an extensive northern country estate built just before the outbreak of the American Revolution by New Hampshire's second Royal Governor, John Wentworth.
The Wentworth Lear Historic Houses [2] (formerly Wentworth-Gardner & Tobias Lear Historic House Association) are a pair of adjacent historic houses on the south waterfront in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Both buildings and an 18th-century warehouse were owned by the Wentworth Lear Historic Houses and were operated as a house museum.
Plummer's Ledge Natural Area in Wentworth, New Hampshire is a 3.5-acre (1.4 ha) plot of land protected by the State of New Hampshire to preserve unique geologic features called glacial potholes. Geologists usually account for the isolated potholes, now high and dry, by the plunging of melt water through vertical cracks or crevasses in the ...
In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county that are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited). Wentworth Location fell within the path of totality during the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024. [4]
Wentworth–Coolidge Mansion is a 40-room clapboard house which was built as the home, offices and working farm of colonial Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. It is located on the water at 375 Little Harbor Road, about two miles southeast of the center of Portsmouth. It is one of the few royal governors' residences to survive almost ...